An Indiana man shot and killed his 9-year-old daughter back in 2017, and now, five years later, he was sentenced to serve one year in a county community corrections program while living at home and then three and a half years of probation. Oliva Hummel was shot in the head when her father was showing her brothers a gun and teaching them gun safety. The gun went off when he pointed it at her and shot and she later died in a hospital.
While prosecutors originally sought an eight-and-a-half-year prison sentence the judge presiding over the case agreed with Mr. Hummel’s attorneys in the fact that a result like that would only further traumatize his sons, Olivia’s brothers.
Mr. Hummel did plead guilty to reckless homicide and said that he didn’t realize the gun was loaded when he shot it and pointed at Olivia.
Read more at Fox News.
I think this is a clear-cut choice to take his guns, rifles etc. away forever.
Familiarity breeds contemp. That is a danger that can come from working with and around dangerous tools and machines every day. Like driving a car back and forth to work every day, it can be entirely too easy to get just a little too relaxed about controlling that 2000 lbs of rolling steel, and start looking at your phone or tuning the radio, or trying to correct a misbehaving kid in the back seat or whatever while you are driving, and take those eyes off the road at just the wrong time and place for the worst to happen, and you suddenly become just another deadly highway statistic.
With firearms there are 4 rules which are to ALWAYS be religiously followed no matter what:
1. All guns are always loaded.
2. Never muzzle (point the gun at) anything you are not willing to kill or destroy.
3. Keep your finger off of the trigger until you are ready to fire.
4. Be CERTAIN of your target AND what is behind it BEFORE you fire.
This guy got a little too familiar and comfortable and broke rule #1. Now his innocent little daughter is forever gone. Rule 1 simply means you ALWAYS handle your firearm as if it were loaded even if you are certain you just unloaded it. You must refuse to allow yourself to ever get too relaxed while driving or handling firearms. Familiarity breeds contempt is a deadly human condition, and so the only surefire solution is to NEVER allow yourself to get too comfortable when driving or otherwise operating dangerous machinery, or handling dangerous tools such as chainsaws or firearms.
Familiarity breeds contempt. Avoid that deadly human attitude at all costs.
Didn’t realize the gun was loaded when he pointed it at his 9 yo daughter and shot WHILE TEACHING HIS KIDS GUN SAFETY……
The most absurd thing I ever heard. Everything is wrong with this statement. There is no way this moron was teaching his kids “gun safety”.